Stegomastodon
| Stegomastodon | |
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| S. mirificus fossil at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Stegomastodon Pohlig, 1912 |
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Stegomastodon ('roof breast tooth') is an extinct genus of gomphotheres. It ranged throughout North America from the Pliocene (early Blancan ~4 Ma), to the Early Pleistocene (early Irvingtonian, ~1.2 Ma). The former South American species have been synonymized with Notiomastodon platensis. The neologism 'cornady' (pl. cornadies) has been proposed in some literature as an english name for the members of this genus.